Limestone plinth with the remains of a group of Herakles and the Hydra

Limestone plinth with the remains of a group of Herakles and the Hydra

Description:

Statue base with the remains of the scene of Herakles and Iolaos fighting the Lernaean Hydra.


Overall: 4 3/8 × 9 3/8 × 25 in. (11.1 × 23.8 × 63.5 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

510 - 490 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. XXVII.92, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 309, p. 234, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2744